Appendix H: Protected Habitats and Locations within the Borough

Protected Habitats:

Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI):

The notified sites at the time of the Strategy’s production are:

1. Plaster’s Green Meadows

2. Folly Farm

3. Cleaves Wood

4. Writhlington

5. Monkswood Valley

6. Compton Martin Ochre Mine

7. Blagdon Lake

8. Bowlditch Quarry

9. Browns Folly

10. Chew Valley Lake

11. Harptree Combe

12. Hinton Charterhouse Pit

13. Kilmersdon Road Quarry

14. Hampton Rocks Cutting

15. Newton St. Loe

16. Long Dole Wood and Meadows

17. Stidham Farm

18. Huish Colliery Quarry

19. Congrove Field and the Tumps, Lansdown

20. Hinton Charterhouse Field

21. North Road Quarry, Bath

22. Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines:

• Chanctonbury Mine
• Mushroom Mine
• Firs Mine
• Grey Gables Mine
• St. Winifreds Mine
• Bathampton Down Mines
• Mt. Pleasant Quarry and Mine Shaft

Candidate Special Area of Conservation:

Box Mine, including:

• Winsley Mines
• Browns Folly
• Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines

Protected locations and key property types

(Full details are available from Council Archaeological Officer.)

Scheduled Ancient Monuments:

Previous Wansdyke District: 47

Previous Bath City: 5

Historic Parks and Gardens:

11 designated sites

Battlefields:

Battle of Lansdown (1643) site

Conservation Areas:

Listed Buildings:

• Grade I: 662
• Grade II*: 145
• Grade II: 5601